Every Square Inch: Taking Christ’s Lordship to the Streets

TAKING CHRIST’S LORDSHIP TO THE STREETS

“There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.” – C.S. Lewis

2024 Symposium

August 30 – 31, 2024
Providence Christian College

Life gets so busy with so many decisions and crucial choices. What career should I choose? What degree? Can I only please God as a pastor or missionary? And, what about dating, marriage, and sexuality? Then there’s politics, the arts, and entertainment. Who am I, and how am I to be? How do I think and live in today’s world?

Join truthXchange this August 30-31st in Pasadena, CA, at Providence Christian College, where we will explore, be equipped, and be challenged to take Christ’s lordship to the streets where everyday life is lived. At this event you will be changed for God’s glory and you will not view the world in the same way when you leave. EVERY square inch of creation is Christ’s; let’s live like it. And let’s do it together.

2024 Agenda

August 30, 2024

6:30 to 7:15 – Registration, Reception, and light refreshments
7:15 – 7:30 – Welcome and Overview
7:30 to 8:15 – Full Time:
Work, Calling, and Human Flourishing,
David L. Bahnsen
8:15 – 8:30 – Housekeeping and Close

August 31, 2024

8:30 – Doors Open; light refreshments
9:00 to 9:45 – Session One:
Male & Female, He Made Them: Redeeming Sexual Beauty,
Peter Jones
9:45 to 10:00 BREAK
10:00 to 10:45 – Session Two:
Neither Progressive nor New Right: Redeeming Politics via Classical Liberalism,
P. Andrew Sandlin
10:45 to 11:00 – BREAK
11:15 to 12:00 – Session Three:
Redeeming Education:The Myth of Neutrality
Joe Boot
12:00 to 1:30 – LUNCH
1:30 to 2:15 – Session Four:
The Law is Good if Used Lawfully: Redeeming the Rule of Law,
Jeffery J Ventrella
2:15 to 2:30 – BREAK
2:30 to 3:15 – Session Five:
Bronze-age/neopatriarchy takedown,
Brian Mattson
3:15 to 3:30 – BREAK
3:30 to 4:15 – Session Six:
No Love without Truth: The Gospel, Transgenderism, and Bearing God’s Image
Mary Weller
4:15 to 4:30 – BREAK
4:30 to 5:30 – Session Seven: Panel Discussion
5:30 to 7:30 – DINNER Break
7:30 to 8:15 – Keynote Address
Reverence Over Relevance and Retreat: Twoist Worship as Cultural Apologetic,
Thaddeus Williams

Speakers

MR. David L. Bahnsen

David L. Bahnsen is the founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, a national private wealth management firm with offices in Newport Beach, New York City, Bend, Nashville, Minneapolis, Austin, and Phoenix, managing over $5 billion in client assets.
David is consistently named one of the top financial advisors in America by Barron’s, Forbes, and the Financial Times. He is a frequent guest on Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC, and Bloomberg and is a regular contributor to National Review and World. He appears weekly on The World and Everything in It discussing the week’s economic and market news.

David is a founding Trustee for Pacifica Christian High School of Orange County and serves on the Board of Directors for the Acton Institute. He is the Senior Fellow of Economics for the Center for Cultural Leadership, and a long-time faculty member for both the Acton Institute and the Blackstone Fellowship of the Alliance Defending Freedom. David is passionate about the integration of faith and economics and has lectured and written for years about a theology of wealth and the marketplace. He responds to the term, “Kuyperian,” is deeply appreciative of Tim Keller and Father Robert Sirico, and has read more systematic theology than any human should ever read. His late father, Dr. Greg Bahnsen, was a renowned Christian apologist and is David’s personal hero and mentor.

He is the author of several best-selling books including Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It (2018), The Case for Dividend Growth: Investing in a Post-Crisis World (2019), and There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths (2021). David’s newest book, Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, was released in February 2024.

His ultimate passions are his wife of 22+ years, Joleen, their children, sons Mitchell and Graham, and daughter Sadie, and the life they’ve created together on both coasts.

Dr. Andrew Sandlin

P. Andrew Sandlin is Founder & President of the Center for Cultural Leadership. He is also faculty of the H. Evan Runner International Academy for Cultural Leadership of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity and the De Jong Distinguished Visiting Professor of Culture and Theology of Edinburg Theological Seminary.
An interdisciplinary scholar, he holds a B. A. in English, history, and political science (University of the State of New York); he was awarded an M. A. in English literature (University of South Africa); he has taken doctoral work in English (Kent State University); and he holds a doctorate in Sacred Theology summa cum laude (Edinburg Theological Seminary).
He is married and has five adult children and five grandchildren.

Dr. Jeffery Ventrella

Dr. Jeffery J. Ventrella is the Director and Chair of the truthXchange Fellowship. Chair of the truthXchange Board for years, Jeff comes to truthXchange with a wealth of experience that will serve the ministry’s vision for truthXchange 2.0. Following a successful career as a “partner” serving clients in “Big Law” for 15 years, Jeff then served for nearly 23 years as Senior Counsel and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Training at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), including serving on ADF’s Executive Team for many years.

Dr. Joseph Boot

Rev. Dr. Joseph Boot (M.A., Ph.D.) is a Christian thinker and cultural apologist, Founder and President of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity. He is adjunct instructor for culture and apologetics at Bryan College, Tennessee. He also served as founding pastor of Westminster Chapel, Toronto for 14 years.

Now resident home in Great Britain, Joseph has worked in the fields of Christian apologetics, worldview education and church leadership for over twenty-five years on both sides of the Atlantic. He has spoken and guest lectured globally at numerous university events, seminaries, churches, colleges, and conferences. He regularly addresses pastors and Christian leaders as well as academic, medical, legal, and political professionals and has publicly debated leading atheistic thinkers and philosophers in Canada and the United States.

Dr. Brian Mattson

Dr. Brian G. Mattson (Ph.D, University of Aberdeen) serves as Senior Scholar for Public Theology for the Center For Cultural Leadership and is Adjunct Professor of Systematic and Public Theology for Westminster Theological Seminary. He writes and publishes The Square Inch Newsletter (www.brianmattson.substack.com). He lives in Billings, Montana with his wife and three daughters.

Mrs. Mary Weller

Mary Weller has worked for truthXchange since 2008. With a background in continuing education project management, Mary has acted as Event Coordinator for truthXchange’s think tanks, symposia, and major conferences. Mary has also cohosted the truthXchange Podcast, spoken in multiple venues on cultural apologetics, and is one of the authors of the Letter to a Friend series of booklets. Mary’s special focus is in gender and spends most of her study and writing time dealing with the ideas of radical gender ideology, equipping believers to respond in a loving, thoughtful, and theologically informed manner to the many issues this ideology presents in culture and the church. Mary and her husband Bob are raising their four kids in Southern California.

Dr. Peter Jones

I was born in Liverpool, England, where I would buy fish and chips on Penny Lane with John Lennon, a high school friend with whom I shared a desk for five years. Not that we did much at those desks! I was too interested in football (soccer), while John spent his time messing around. We played music together at school, but I never became a Beatle because my Christian parents wouldn’t allow me to go to clubs. When I got serious about my studies, I went to the University of Wales, then to Gordon Divinity School, near Boston. During my master’s year at Harvard Divinity School, I met Francis Schaeffer (through his books) and a Wellesley College student, Rebecca Clowney, daughter of Edmund P. Clowney, president for many years of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.

Dr. Thaddeus Williams

Thaddeus Williams (Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) serves as tenured professor of theology for Biola University. He is also the author of the best-seller Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice.

He has also taught Philosophy and Literature at Saddleback College, Jurisprudence at Trinity Law School, and as a lecturer in Worldview Studies at L’Abri Fellowships in Switzerland and Holland, and Ethics for Blackstone Legal Fellowship the Federalist Society in Washington D.C.

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